Invited speaker Dr. Bruce Remington of Lawrence Livermore National Lab gave the talk, “From High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics to Extreme Materials Science: Pushing the Frontiers of Experimental Science.” His talk provided an overview of high-energy-density plasmas, with emphasis on the latest developments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser at LLNL.

Five prizes were offered for best presentation from the 5 oral and 29 poster presentations by students. Jun-Chieh Wang, a graduate student in electrical engineering, received a prize for his poster presentation, "Electron Current Extraction from RF Excited Micro-Dielectric Barrier Discharges." The research was conducted in collaboration with Napoleon J. Leoni, Henryk Birecki, Omer Gila, and Eric G. Hanson of Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Palo Alto, CA, and Prof. Mark Kushner.

Jun-Chieh Wang, Prof. John Foster

Angela Dixon, Prof. John Foster

Dr. Robert Lobbia, Eric Gillman

For additional information, including a complete list of the oral and poster presentation and abstracts, please see the MIPSE Event Page